LAND O LAKES^® Mare's Match^® Foal Milk Replacer and Pellets

The nutrition a foal needs to reach its full potential.

Give Them a Meal Just Like Mom Used to Make

When you've got a mare that can't give your foal the needed nutrition, you need a milk replacer that can.  Mare's Match^® Foal Milk Replacer.

Mare's Match^® Foal Milk Replacer takes the place of mom with palatable, scientifically proven nutrition.  Mare's Match^® milk replacer is made with high quality milk protein and fat levels equal to Mother's own, providing the nutrition your foals need to reach their maximum potential.  The combination of ingredients in Mare's Match^® milk replacer provides the energy and digestibility needed by growing foals.

Benefits of Feeding Mare's Match^® Foal Milk Replacer

• Foals grow as well as on the mare.
• Meets the requirements of growing foals.
• Foals look as good as mare raised.
• Provides maximum digestibility to meet foals' energy requirements.

When To Use Mare's Match^®Foal Milk Replacer

• Orphan foals. 
• Foals with inadequate milk supply. 
• Mare won't allow foal to nurse. 
• Foals from sick mares.

 Ingredients and Features 

• 24% crude protein from high-quality milk protein.
• 16% fat homogenized to small particles for digestibility.
• Insta*Flake^® milk replacer process assures quick and easy mixing.
• Good shelf life (up to one year if unopened).

• Mare's Match^®Foal Milk Replacer closely approximates the composition of mare's milk.
• Foals experienced weight gain and growth similar to suckling foals. 
• Occurrence of foal diarrhea was minimal and of short duration.   

Foal Management Practices

• Reduce exposure to bacteria by providing a dry, draft-free stall.
• Completely sanitize feeding equipment daily.
• Sanitize and disinfect the foal stall and bed it with clean bedding prior to the foal's birth.
• The foaling stall should also be cleaned regularly after the foal is born to help reduce bacterial and viral disease and ammonia levels.
• A high level of ammonia is cause of foal pneumonia.
• Dip navel in iodine immediately after birth to prevent the invasion of bacteria.

• Be sure foal eats high quality colostrum within 2 hours of birth.  Getting the colostrum into the foals as soon as possible is crucial for its survival.
• A foal is only able to absorb colostrum during the first 24-36 hours after birth.
• Be ready with frozen colostrum and a high quality milk replacer if the mare should fail to give milk.
• The better the colostrum quality, the better the chances for survival.  Use a colostrometer to measure the colosturm quality.
• If a mare dies giving birth, has no milk, or if her colostrum registers low, you can use the high quality colostrum that has been taken from other mares and frozen.
• Frozen colostrum has to be stored in plastic containers, like freezer bags, and not in glass containers.  That's because the antibodies stick to the glass.  If it's frozen in plastic, colostrum can be stored for over a year and still be effective.
• When you thaw colostrum, do it at room temperature; do not microwave it or boil it.  The colosturm can lose its value to the foal.  Use a colostrometer to recheck the reading after it thaws.
• If you don't have any colostrum available or it registers less than 1.065, colostrum banks are set up in some states to help you.  For more information, contact your local veterinarian or a local university animal science department.
• The foal should be standing up when it drinks colostrum, whether from its mother, its nurse mare, or a plastic bottle.
• If the foal can't suckle, a stomach tube might be needed.  The procedure is very delicate and if done wrong could be fatal.  A veterinarian should be contacted to do the procedure.  A blood test can be taken at 12 hours of age to know for sure if the antibodies have been absorbed.  If you can't get colostrum into the foal, ask the veterinarian for help.

Signs of a healthy newborn you can check for yourself.

• The foal should be able to sit up on its chest within minutes of birth.
• Mucous membranes should be red or pink.
• It should be breathing easily within 15 minutes and have a suckling reflex within 20 minutes, at the maximum.
• The foal should be able to stand within 20-30 minutes and nurse within 1 hour or less after birth.  And it should be alert and recognize its mother.
• A veterinarian check of the mare and foal is suggested 12 hours after birth.  The veterinarian will check the mare's general condition and do a worm check to prevent further contamination of the foal's environment.  The foal will also be given a general check for color, cleft palate, heart, legs suckling reflex, and condition of the naval stump.

LAND O LAKES^® Mare's Match^® Foal Pellets

Designed Foal Nutrition

Your goal is growing a foal to it's full potential. LAND O LAKES^® Mare's Match^® Foal Pellets are part of that equation.

Mare's Match^® Foal Pellets is a milk-base supplement designed to provide your young foals and weanling horses scientific nutrition that's part of a flexible successful nutrition feeding program.

Mare's Match^® pellets provide a nutritional boost for maximizing foal growth and can be fed free choice up to two pounds per day. And foals like it! Use foal pellets to aid the transition from milk to grain.

Ingredients and Features

• 26% protein from high quality milk.
• 10% fat homogenized from a highly digestible fat source.
• Balanced nutrition including calcium, phosphorus and trace minerals for structural growth.
• Palatable nutrition for healthy, energetic foals.

When to Feed Mare's Match^® Pellets

Orphans/Early Weanlings
Mare's Match^® Foal Pelets can be fed free-choice up to 2 pounds or 4 cups** per day.

Nursing Foals
Mare's Match^® Foal Pellets can be fed free-choice up to 1.5 pounds or 3 cups** per day .

Weanlings/Yearlings
Feed normal protein roughage/grain ration. If additional condition is desired, feed 0.5 to 1.5 pounds (1-3 cups**) of Mare's Match^® Foal Pellets.

Broodmares
Gestation: Depending on the condition of the mare, supplement the mare's ration with 0.5 to 1.5 pounds (1-3 cups**) of Mare's Match^® Foal Pellets daily. Do not allow the mare to become fat.
Lactation: If supplementation is needed, feed 0.5 to 1.5 pounds (1-3 cups**) daily depending upon the condition of the mare .

Performance Horses
Supplement the ration with 0.5 to 1.5 pounds (1-3 cups**) daily to maintain condition.

** Cup enclosed in the package holds approximately 0.5 pounds of Mare's Match^® Foal Pellets.

Benefits

• Provides nutritional boost for maximizing foal growth.
• Milk based nutrition helps aid in transition from milk to grain.
• Provides highly digestible fat source to meet foal energy requirements.
• Has balanced nutrition including calcium, phosphorus and trace minerals.
• Foals like it! Palatable nutrition to help provide a healthy, energetic foal.

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